Locklair, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Moncks Corner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Stony Branch. The Survey maps it on the Moncks Corner quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Locklair within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1919 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:48000
1920 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Moncks Corner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

450 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 450 fires within 5 miles of Locklair (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,559 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 80 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	192
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	138
Arson/incendiarism	80
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Locklair (historical): 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Consolidated Enterprises Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Consolidated Pit Number 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Sand/Clay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Berkeley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bombaretta (historical)	0.2 miles	18
The Cottage	1.0 miles	18
Whitesville	1.2 miles	18
Oak Park	1.2 miles	18
The Barrows	1.4 miles	18
Oakley	1.9 miles	19
Hickory Hill	2.0 miles	19
Fox Bank (historical)	2.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234543. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.